Definition of Mongrelize

1. Verb. Cause to become a mongrel. "Mongrelized dogs"

Exact synonyms: Mongrelise
Generic synonyms: Breed
Derivative terms: Mongrel, Mongrel

Definition of Mongrelize

1. v. t. & i. To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.

Definition of Mongrelize

1. Verb. To breed a mongrel ¹

2. Verb. To cross-breed ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Mongrelize

1. [v -IZED, -IZING, -IZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Mongrelize

mongongos
mongoos
mongoose
mongooses
mongos
mongrel
mongrelisation
mongrelisations
mongrelise
mongrelised
mongrelises
mongrelising
mongrelism
mongrelization
mongrelizations
mongrelize (current term)
mongrelized
mongrelizes
mongrelizing
mongrelly
mongrels
mongs
mongst
monial
monials
moniamond
moniamonds
monic polynomial
monicker
monickers

Literary usage of Mongrelize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Marianne Moore: Vision Into Verse by Patricia C. Willis (1987)
"... Giorgione! there are those who mongrelize and those who heighten anything they touch; although it may well be that if Giorgione's self-portrait were not ..."

2. Race Or Mongrel: a Brief History of the Rise and Fall of the Ancient Races by Alfred Paul Karl Eduard Schultz (1908)
"It tends to mongrelize the United States, both by directing the course of immigration to the United States, and by forcing the United States to take control ..."

3. The States of the River Plate: Their Industries and Commerce. Sheep-farming by Wilfrid Latham (1866)
"Having an established variety, however inferior many of its characteristics may be in degree, we must be particularly careful not to mongrelize it; ..."

4. Empire and Armament: The Evolution of American Imperialism and the Problem by Jennings Cropper Wise (1915)
"And there are others who assert that it tends to mongrelize, and to depress wages in the United States by directing the course of immigration to North ..."

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